Interpolated average CT for attenuation correction in PET-A simulation study

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1927-1934

  Mok, Greta S P ^a   Sun, Tao ^a   Huang, Tzung Chi ^b   Vai, Mang I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction (AC); positron emission tomography (PET) CT; respiratory artifacts; simulations

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; F-FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; ORDERED SUBSET EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); RESPIRATORY ARTIFACTS; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; SIMULATIONS; SOFTWARE FOR TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

BREEDER REACTORS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; BREATHING PATTERN; CINE AVERAGE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; EXPIRATORY FLOW; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING PHANTOM; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; INTERPOLATED AVERAGE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84877796985     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2245132     Document Type: Article

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